The future of Hollywood’s movie business was on full display Sunday night as top executives gathered together in person to celebrate the Academy Awards for the first time in two years.
The roster of heavyweights attending the Oscars 2022 ceremony included Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose film studio is on the rise in no small measure due to best-picture winner CODA, and Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek. The latter, whose early tenure is being tested in a major way, sat next to West Side Story director Steven Spielberg during the telecast. Other major names attending included Universal Filmed Entertainment chair Donna Langley, Netflix content titan Ted Sarandos, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar and lieutenant Ann Sarnoff.
The ceremony took place as Hollywood reshapes itself. Last week, Amazon closed its deal to acquire the storied Hollywood studio MGM, which garnered the most Oscar nominations in its history this year, including for Licorice Pizza and House of Gucci (MGM board president and hedge fund magnate Kevin Ulrich, who helped broker the Amazon sales, was all smiles on the carpet). Warners, which also amassed numerous Oscar nominations this season, including six wins for Dune, also has a new boss waiting to take over, albeit one that’s a legacy Hollywood company, Discovery.
Below are the corporate leaders, studio heads, top executives, agents and producers showing up for the Oscars.
Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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From left: Searchlight heads David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, flanked by Disney’s Peter Rice and Bob Chapek.
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Universal’s Peter Levinsohn, Donna Langley and Jimmy Horowitz.
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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos with the company’s vp, independent film and documentary features, Lisa Nishimura.
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Amazon Studios’ Mike Hopkins and Jennifer Salke.
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Apple Studios team with Cook. From left: Tor Myhren, Eddie Cue, Cook, Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht.
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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar and wife Jamie.
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Anchorage Capital CEO Kevin Ulrich.
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Ann Sarnoff of WarnerMedia and husband Richard.
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Paramount’s Brian Robbins with wife Tracy.
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Disney Studios Content Chairman Alan Bergman with son Ryan (L), and Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production president Sean Bailey with wife Charmaine.
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Toby Emmerich and wife Julie Glucksman.
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Netflix’s Scott Stuber with wife Molly Sims.
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Walt Disney Animation’s Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee with Alfred Molina.
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MGM’s Pam Abdy and husband Mitch Whitaker.
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Paramount Motion Picture Group co-presidents Michael Ireland and Daria Cercek.
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Legendary’s Mary Parent.
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President of both Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation Ramsey Naito and producer Bonnie Arnold.
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Netflix VP Animated Film Karen Toliver, Sony Pictures Animation President Kristine Belson and producer Stephanie Allain.
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Disney Studios marketing president Asad Ayaz and husband Harma Hartouni.
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Netflix’s Tendo Nagenda and Disney’s Kareem Daniel.
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20th Century Studios’ Steve Asbell and wife Lucy.
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Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and wife Stefanie Azpiazu.
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Warner Bros. President of Worldwide Marketing Josh Goldstine, Production and Development President Courtenay Valenti and Domestic Distribution President Jeff Goldstein.
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Orion Pictures President Alana Mayo (R) with guest Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi.
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Netflix COO Greg Peters and wife Kimi.
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Sony Picture Classics co-presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker.
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NEON’s Tom Quinn with son Dylan.
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Walt Disney Music president Tom MacDougall
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Endeavor Content CEO Graham Taylor with producer and wife Lynette Howell Taylor.
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WME’s Robert Newman with wife Cindy.
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UTA’s Houston Costa, Theresa Peters, Richard Klubeck and Keya Khayatian.
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ICM Partners’ Joanne Wiles, Jessica Lacy and Doug MacLaren.
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WME’s Grant Illes, Mira Yong, Jasan Pagni, Shari Shankewitz and Wayne Fitterman.
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The Gersh Agency’s David Gersh and wife Susan.
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Iconic Talent Agency founder Devin Mann with wife Nina Takesh.
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Kraft-Engel Management’s Laura Engel with ‘Encanto’ composer Germaine Franco and son.
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Academy CEO Dawn Hudson.
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Chairman of Entertainment Walt Disney Television Dana Walden and husband Matt Walden.
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‘CODA’ director Sian Heder with husband David Newsom.
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‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ team: Phil Lord, Michael Rianda, Kurt Albrecht and Chris Miller.
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‘King Richard’ producer Tim White and wife Lacey Young.
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‘King Richard’ director Reinaldo Marcus Green and wife Chiara Bernasconi.
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Filmmaker Jason Reitman with mother Genevieve Robert and daughter Josephine Reitman.
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Dune’ film editor Joe Walker.
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Academy Music Branch Governor Laura Karpman and wife Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum.
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Disney’s Cathleen Taff and daughter Lindsay.
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Wolfgang Puck.
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